Search

Say what you are trying to do and we will point you at it.

One box, and every page on this site behind it. Results are ranked, not listed alphabetically: a page whose name matches comes first, then its section, then the words in the page itself.

Most people arrive here having searched for something we call by a different name, so the box also knows the words people type — bursary, kit hire, levy, work experience — not only the words we print. Enter opens the first result; Escape clears the box.

Nothing is sent anywhere. The index is built when the site is built, it travels with the page, and the search runs entirely in your browser.

Most people are here for one of these

Six starting points.

I want to get into the industry

Routes in, what each job is, what it pays, and how to get a first day

I need equipment

What we hold, how a hire works, and how it is quoted

I want to commission a film

What we make, what it costs to make it, and who has commissioned us

I teach, or I lead a department

School, college and university work, teacher CPD, and the material to use with a class

Something has gone wrong

Money, safety, discrimination, or a production that is treating you badly

Who are you, exactly

The company, the five pillars, the accounts and the governance

If you searched for this, you want that

The words people use, and the page they meant.

What people search forWhere it lives
Courses, training, workshops, classesTraining, and the workshop calendar inside it
Work experience, placement, runner, first jobLearn, and the progression ladder
Camera hire, kit hire, lens hire, rental pricesThe package, and how a hire is quoted
Free, funded, bursary, can I afford itBursaries, and the trainee grant
35mm, film stock, shoot on film, celluloidThe 35mm initiative and Shot on Film
AI, machine learning, is my job safeAI and future workflows, and the state of the industry piece
Prayer room, fasting, faith on set, cultural safetyThe Faith Inclusion work under Pillar 05
Accounts, CIC34, who is on the board, policiesReports and accounts, and the policies index
Safeguarding, report a concern, complaintReport a concern, and the complaints route

Everything in the right-hand column is reachable from the six doors above, or from the footer. Nothing on this site is more than three clicks from the home page, and if you found something that is, that is a fault worth telling us about.

Nothing matched

When the search comes back empty.

Try fewer words

Two words beat six. Search engines inside websites are much worse than the one you came from, and ours is no exception.

Try the industry word, or the plain one

We keep a list of the words people type against the pages they meant — bursary against ‘Can I afford this?’, kit hire against the package, levy against apprenticeships. It is not exhaustive, and we add to it when a search comes back empty.

Check whether it exists yet

Parts of this site are still being built and are marked as such. If a page is in development we would rather say so than show you an empty result.

Tell us what you were looking for

One field, one button. We read every one of these, and it is the fastest way for us to find out what is missing from this site.

The index is rebuilt every time the site is built, the synonym list is a plain text file anyone on the team can edit without a developer, and every result points to a page we have written. Nothing you type is sent anywhere — the search runs in your browser.

Next

Or start from the top.

The full sitemap runs down the footer of every page. If you would rather ask a person than a search box, the contact page has a named route for each kind of enquiry rather than one general inbox.